Miss Harahush
pictured with a Bamboo Shark pup that she has raised to study the development of its fins and eyes.

Box Jellyfishhave four morphologically different types of eye. Two of these eye types, called the upper and lower lens eyes, are camera type eyes with spherical fish-like lenses.

In
Guangdong,
China,
Restaurant
Pays
$75,000.00
for a
"Lucky
Fish".

A
Chinese
restaurant
paid
$75,000
for a
giant
golden-colored
tiger
fish, a
symbol
of
wealth
and good
fortune.
The
fish,
which
weighed
about
105
lbs.,
was
caught
off the
coast of
Zhanjiang
in the
booming
southern
province
of
Guangdong.
The
China
News
Service
said,
"The
restaurant
agreed
to
display
the fish
... It
is about
1.75
meters
long,
and its
scales
shine
like
gold
..."
Click
here
to read
more.

In
Mozambique,
East
Africa,
15 lb.
Tiger
Fish
Caught
on
Fishing
Line.

Click
here
to see
picture
of this
and many
other
huge
freshwater
fish
caught
by
fishermen.

University
of
Queensland
,
Australia,
Shark
Pups
Open
Eyes and
Change
Fins
Early.

Baby
sharks
grow
slowly,
changing
their
fins as
they
grow and
can see
a month
before
they
leave
their
eggs,
according
UQ
research.
UQ
Marine
Science
PhD
student
Blake
Harahush,
of the
School
of
Biomedical
Sciences,
has been
studying
the
growth
and
visual
development
of Brown
Banded
Bamboo
Sharks
from
embryo
to adult
for the
last
three
years.
Click
here
to read
more.

Le Huu
Dung,
director
of Hai
Dang
Company
Ltd.,
which
runs
several
water
parks
in Ho
Chi Minh
City,
said the
fish  an
Arapaima
Gigas,
known in
Vietnam
as
Dai
Tuong

can
live up
to 60
years,
grow
to
be over
20 feet
long,
and
weigh
1000
lbs.
The fish
caught
in
district
2 is 64
inches,
thought
to be
eight or
nine
years
old, and
weighs
around
220 lbs.
It was
sold for
$2,493.00
to a
local
ornamental
fish
breeder.
Click
here
to read
more.

In
Glasgow,
Scotland,
How
Box
Jellyfish
Avoid
Banging
Into
Things.

Box
jellyfish
are much
more
active
swimmers
than
other
jellyfish
-- they
exhibit
strong
directional
swimming,
are able
to
perform
rapid
180
degree
turns,
and can
deftly
move in
between
objects.
So how
do they
manage
to
maneuver
the
obstacle
course
that is
in the
sea bed?
Box
jellyfish
have
four
morphologically
different
types of
eye. Two
of these
eye
types,
called
the
upper
and
lower
lens
eyes,
are
camera
type
eyes
with
spherical
fish-like
lenses.
Scientists
measured
the role
of these
camera
eyes in
obstacle
avoidance
in two
species
of box
jellyfish
--
Tripedalia
cystophora
and
Chiropsella
bronzie.
T.
cystophora
displayed
stronger
obstacle
avoidance
than C.
bronzie
which
correlates
well
with the
differences
in their
habitats:
T.
cystophora
originates
in the
Caribbean
and
lives in
between
mangrove
roots,
thus
their
habitat
is
filled
with
relatively
small
vertical
obstacles.
C.
bronzie
hails
from
northern
Australia
and
their
habitat
holds,
larger
obstacles,
such as
large
stones
and
fallen
over
trees.
Click
here
to read
more.

In
Wisconsin
Virus
in Great
Lakes
Threatens
Massive
Fish
Kill.

The
state
Department
of
Natural
Resources
is
asking
for the
public's
help in
keeping
a deadly
fish
virus at
bay.
Viral
Hemorrhagic
Septicemia,
more
commonly
called
VHS, has
already
infected
the
Great
Lakes,
including
Lake
Michigan,
and is
causing
massive
fish
kills.
"I think
people
know
about
invasive
species
in
general
but I
think
this one
is such
a large
threat,"
said
Mike
Staggs,
director
of the
Bureau
of
Fisheries.
"It's
probably
an order
of
magnitude
greater
than
anything
we've
seen to
date."
Click
here
to read
more.

Hey guys Joshua from
Okemos, Michigan, again. Here is a better link about VHS in our
Great Lakes ....

In
De Kalb,
Illinois,
Science
Fair
Gives
Students
Chance
to try
out
Theories.

Clinton
Rosette
eighth-grader
Anugrah
Lambogo
was at
Saturday's
fair.
His
project,
Lab
Fish,
was
meant to
find out
which
fish
would go
through
a maze
faster -
a
goldfish
or a
molly.
I
guessed
it would
be a
goldfish,
but they
were
about
the
same,
he said.
The fish
took
about
two
minutes
to get
to the
end of
the maze
where
there
was some
food.
No
animals
were
harmed,
he said.
Click
here
to read
more.

In the
North
Atlantic
Ocean
Shark
Declines
Threaten
Shellfish
Stocks.

Dramatic
declines
of large
North
Atlantic
sharks
due to
over
fishing
have
upset
the
balance
of
entire
marine
ecosystems,
a new
study
shows.
Now
scallops,
clams,
and
oysters
are
paying
the
price.
Smaller
sharks,
skates,
and rays
that are
normally
eaten by
the
large
sharks
have
become
so
abundant
that
they are
ravaging
shellfish
stocks,
the
researchers
say. The
shark
declines,
fed by
growing
worldwide
demand
for
shark-fin
soup,
are
indirectly
causing
some
scallop
fisheries
to
collapse
entirely,
the
scientists
add.
Click
here
to read
more.

In
Halifax,
Nova
Scotia
A
Moment
for
Remembering
Ransom
Myers

Ransom
A.
Myers,
54, the
world-renowned
fisheries
biologist
whose
research
showed
that the
number
of large
fish in
the
world's
oceans
has
dropped
by 90
percent
in the
past 50
years,
died of
a brain
tumor
March 27
at a
hospital
in
Halifax,
Nova
Scotia.
The
journal
Science
has just
published
a major
paper
co-written
by Dr.
Myers,
"Cascading
Effects
of the
Loss of
Apex
Predatory
Sharks
from a
Coastal
Ocean,"
about
the
importance
of
sharks
in
marine
ecosystems.
More
than any
other
scientist,
Ransom's
work has
alerted
us to
the full
extent
of the
rapid
decline
in fish
populations
in
recent
years,
particularly
large
pelagic
fish and
other
predators.
Click
here
to read
more.

From New
York on
April 1,
2007
The
Monster
in the
Long
Island Sound

It's
about a
gigantic,
squid-like
creature
that was
seen
yesterday
squirming
its way
through
the
deeper
parts of
Long
Island
Sound,
startling
several
eyewitnesses,
including
at least
one
fisherman,
some
revelers
on the
deck of
a
swingers
excursion
boat and
a former
member
of an
auxiliary
harbor
police
patrol.
The U.S.
Coast
Guard
was
notified,
but
nothing
was
found
after
extensive
patrols
and
sonar
testing.
Click
here
for more
April
Fools
Day Fun.

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New York,
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Calgary,
Canada,
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